Our leaders can either choose to look in the mirror and take full responsibility or look out the window and continue with the blame game

Rather than criticise them, I think we should concern ourselves with stopping our country from offshoring presidential sickness – both the pathological and the moral

On February 26 this year, the police conducted a media trial and parade of the detained 49 members of the Peace Corps of Nigeria. In condemning the uncouth action of the Police I pointed out that “the parade of criminal suspects by the Police in the country is illegal and unconstitutional.” Shortly thereafter, there was a violent clash between the Yoruba and Hausa communities in Ile Ife, Osun State. The 20 suspects arrested by the police were paraded before the media in Abuja last week. Since the suspects are of Yoruba extraction the Afenifere has condemned the selective arrest by the police.

LAWYERS can be very confounding when prosecuting or defending a case. It seems in the nature of their practice to raise objections even when they are not convinced by their own antics. There is always an objective though. At times, it is just to waste time. The foregoing is predicated on the observation of the ballot recount controversy at the ongoing Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, that had to be taken to the Court of Appeal for direction.

TWO weeks ago, specifically Wednesday, March 15, was the World Consumer Rights Day. However, consumers of banking and financial services in Nigeria could not fully join their counterparts all over the world to commemorate and celebrate this Special Day. This is because customers of Savannah Bank of Nigeria (SBN) Plc are still in agony, suspense and with loads of questions in their hearts, 15 years after.

“Let us consider the following trend very carefully: Shiite massacre-no arrest. Southern Kaduna killings-little or no arrest. Agatu genocide-little or no arrest. Pastor Eunice Elisha murdered in broad daylight in Kubwa-No arrest. Evangelist Bridget Agbahime beheaded in broad daylight in Kano-suspected killers discharged and acquitted on the instruction of the state Attorney General. Ife clashes-Plenty of lopsided arrests. Buhari dog man-immediate arrest of culprit. Is this how justice works in the new and improved Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari?”

The entourage from the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC to Speaker Yakubu Dogara last Thursday could not hide its appreciation of the loyalty the House leadership has continued to pay to the party.

AS I drove home from a party at about 2 am, I saw a lady standing by the roadside. I recognised her. She was a Nigerian, a Fashion Designer, known for her exquisite designs and good tailoring in the Nigerian community in the Washington, DC area. Wondering what she was doing there at that eerie time of the morning, I stopped. She told me that, as she was driving home, her brand new car abruptly stopped, and she could not figure out the problem. German engineering is superb.

DESCENDANTS of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia on Thursday May 16, 2017 stepped into an American District Court in Manhattan. It was the first time in 109 years that the world would, through their descendants, hear the voices of over 100,000 Africans massacred in their ancestral home by German colonialists who operated on the basis that the Africans they annihilated were animals and not human beings.

BROS, the Bill has just been passed!” With those immortal words, Omawumi informed me that the Delta State House of Assembly, DSHA, had passed the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, that is DESOPADEC, Bill into law. I think it was on 1st August, 2006 and she had called on phone from the House.